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“Scars of Independence: Violence in the American Revolution” a Lecture by Prof. Holger Hoock given June 7, 2017.
https://vimeo.com/226298139
Americans tend to portray their revolution and war for independence as a heroic tale––as the triumph of high-minded ideals in the face of imperial overreach, and a unified, nation-building struggle. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the Founders did their best to encourage after the war. Professor Hoock demonstrates that to understand the Revolution we must acknowledge that it was also a profoundly violent civil war. Drawing on extensive new research, Professor Hoock will take us into the streets and homes of Revolutionary America, onto battlefields, and inside prisons, to illustrate the terror that lay at the very heart of the Revolutionary project, and the battlefield atrocities, rape, and plunder that characterized the war across the thirteen colonies. Professor Hoock will also consider with us why and how the Revolution’s all-pervasive violence has been moved to the margins of the story that we typically hear.
“Unraveling Empire: The Transatlantic Politics of Making Silk and Protest in the Revolutionary Era,” a lecture by Prof. Zara Anishanslin, given May 24, 2017.
https://vimeo.com/227427817
Citizens of the British Empire who made and wore silk on both sides of the Atlantic played crucial roles in challenging parliamentary legislation after the Seven Years' War. In contemporaneous moments of protest, silk weavers in London rioted and marched to petition the king for duties against French silk, while Americans signed non-importation agreements, championed the wearing of homespun over English silk, and labored to produce their own American silk. Although protesting different issues, these English and American protestors referenced the same ideological touchstones, and both imbued the weaving and wearing of that most luxurious of fabrics--silk--with political meaning.
“The Guns of the Boston Train,” a Lecure given by J.L. Bell on December 14, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/203462178
J. L. Bell, editor of Boston1775.net and associate editor of The Journal of the American Revolution, discusses a portion of his book, The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War.
“The Constitution as a Coup Against Public Opinion,” a lecture given by Michael J. Klarman on November 13, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/222967845?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-cliptranscode-201504&utm_campaign=28749Text: Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School and the author of The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the U. S. Constitution, the first comprehensive, single-volume account of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. His previous book is From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality.
“‘Money is the Sinews of War’: George Washington, Money, and the Revolutionary War,” a Lecture given by Edward G. Lengel on November 9, 2017.
https://vimeo.com/203444970Edward G. Lengel is Chief Historian of the White House Historical Association, and the author of numerous books, included George Washington: America’s Founder in Myth and Memory, and First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His – and the Nation’s – Prosperity.
“Washington’s Master Imagist,” a lecture given by Paul Staiti on October 28, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/200470745
The author of Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters’ Eyes discusses the life and career of Gilbert Stuart.
“John Adams’ New Aristocracy, 1777-1815,” a lecture given by Richard Alan Ryerson on October 19, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/188410797
The author of John Adams’ Republic: The One, the Few and the Many,” discusses John Adams’ views on “American Aristocracy.”
“James Madison and the Power of Partnership,” a lecture by David O. Stewart given on September 16, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/185797568David O. Stewart is the author Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America and The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution.
“Who Thomas Jefferson Was and Who He Wasn’t,” a lecture by Andrew Burstein given on July 2, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/188410810Andrew Burstein is the Charles P. Man ship Professor of History at Louisiana State University. Burstein is the author of several books on Jefferson, including the New York Times bestseller Madison and Jefferson (coauthored with his wife, Nancy Isenberg) and Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead.
“Benjamin Franklin’s British Decades: From Royalist to Revolutionary,” a lecture by George Goodwin given on July 7, 2016.
https://vimeo.com/187467537George Goodwin is Honorary Author in Residence at Benjamin Franklin House in London and the author of book Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father. This lecture presents Franklin as an American patriot who was a fiercely loyal British citizen until forces he had sought and failed to control made him a reluctant revolutionary at the age of sixty-nine.
"Grand Forage 1778: The Revolutionary War’s Forgotten Campaign"
https://vimeo.com/166207371
On Sunday, May 1, 2016, Todd Braisted presented a lecture on his new book, Grand Forage 1778: The Revolutionary War’s Forgotten Campaign. 1778 marked a crucial period in the American Revolution. The French entry into the war forced the British to completely alter their strategy. The unenviable task of carrying out London’s strategy fell upon the new commander in chief in America, Sir Henry Clinton. In the midst of detaching 10,000 troops across North America, Clinton led his full army into the field one last time that autumn, gathering supplies, striking at Washington’s advanced posts, and hoping for one last big push at the Continental Army.
"No One Told Them The War Had Ended"
https://vimeo.com/164730479
Don Glickstein presented “No One Told Them The War Had Ended” on Friday, April 22, 2016. The popular myth is that heroic, patriotic Americans under George Washington defeated the British at Yorktown, the Revolution was over, and Americans were exceptional. But Yorktown meant the defeat of one British army, not the British. Washington, George III, and their allies vowed to fight on. And that fighting—which expanded after the French entered the war in 1778—spanned the world, from Hudson Bay to South America, Cape Town to Arkansas, Gibraltar to Schenectady. Don Glickstein is a journalist and the author of After Yorktown.
Patrick O’Donnell
https://vimeo.com/159346277
On March 15, 2016, Patrick O’Donnell, author of Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution told the “boots on the ground” story of the “Maryland Line,” one of the Continental Army’s first elite outfits.
"A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American Revolution during the Spring of 1778"
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https://vimeo.com/157621767
“A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American Revolution during the Spring of 1778,” a lecture by Dennis M. Conrad, February 24, 2016
Using materials taken from the newly-published Naval Documents of the American Revolution, volume 12, Dennis M. Conrad offered a new and exciting perspective on America's naval heritage. Dr. Conrad is Documentary Histories Technical Lead at the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Ray Raphael
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http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308285-1
In his lecture at the David Library on September 27, 2012, author Ray Raphael chronicled the debate at the Constitutional Convention over who should elect the U.S. president. He also described the arguments made by George Washington, James Madison, and lesser-known delegates on the scope of the president’s power. His most recent book is Mr.President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive.
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
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http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/1812
Author Nicole Eustace, history professor at New York University, discusses her book, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism, in which she examines the affect the War of 1812 had on American politics and patriotism. In her lecture at the David Library on September 30, 2012, she reported that the end of the three-year War resulted in the “era of good feelings,” marked by diffused partisanship and greater nationalism.
"The Boston Tea Party"
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http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/Defian
Benjamin L. Carp is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. He spoke at the David Library on October 7, 2010. Questions from the audience were fielded by William P. Tatum III, Sol Feinstone Scholar at the David Library of the American Revolution.
Approx. 60 minutes
"Mrs. Adams, Meet Mrs. Bennett: Abigail Adams and Her Daughter"
https://vimeo.com/169864292“Mrs. Adams, Meet Mrs. Bennett: Abigail Adams and Her Daughter,” a lecture by Dr. Richard A. Ryerson given on September 25, 2005. While editing the long and loving correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, Dr. Ryerson noted that John Adams became truly angry with Abigail only once, when she played the role of a "courting mother" for her daughter, Abigail. This lecture begins with a brief reference to that champion of literary "courting mothers," Mrs. Bennett in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (1797-1813), and then explore the role of parental authority and influence in one prominent American family's selection of marriage partners, from 1764-1797.
"Washington's Crossing"
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http://www.c-span.org/video/?180854-1/book-discussion-washingtons-crossing
Pulitzer Prize winner David Hackett Fischer lectured at the David Library on February 26, 2004, the week that his book Washington's Crossing was published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Fischer explored the history behind George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on December 25, 1776, and the iconic depiction of the event by the painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (“George Washington Crossing the Delaware”). Questions from the audience were fielded by Nancy L. Spears, President of the David Library.
59 minutes
"Runaway America"
Click here for Video: http://www.c-span.org/video/?184484-1/book-discussion-runaway-america-benjamin-franklin
On November 18, 2004, David Waldstreicher, Professor of History at Temple University, lectured about Benjamin Franklin’s conflicted views on slavery. Dr. Waldstreicher is the author of Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, published by Hill and Wang. In his lecture, he argued that Benjamin Franklin’s antislavery credentials were exaggerated. Questions from the audience were moderated by Dr. Richard A. Ryerson.
1 hour, 1 minute
Founding Friendship – a lecture by Stuart Leibiger
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http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/157591-1
Back on June 8, 2000, Dr. Stuart Leibiger lectured about the relationship between George Washington and James Madison, and how their mutual respect and ability to collaborate influenced the founding of the federal government. Dr. Leibiger is the author of Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, published by the University of Virginia Press.